Of Mice And Men Essay Examples

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The novella Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck shows the misadventures of two migrant workers in 1920 California. Steinbeck's life and the times greatly influenced his writing of this book. Through Steinbeck's writing he explores the theme of loneliness and uses the symbols of animal imagery and escape to help support his theme and give his characters life.John Steinbeck was born in Salinas California. He was the third of four children. He grew up in Salinas, the town in many of his stories. He was once a student at Stanford but left without a degree. He died of...
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Of Mice and Men is a touching novella written by John Steinbeck, describing the difficult life in California in the 1937. Written from 3rd person omniscient, the plot is mainly about two men, Lennie and George, who have totally different personalities however are friends and travel together. Lennie, having a mind of a child, has several personal limitations which are his inability to learn from mistakes, his crazy obsession with "petting" soft things and the incapacity to control his strength, which all lead...
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Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck’s novel ‘Of Mice and Men’ is one of those books which
make you believe everything that takes place between the covers. Books
like these always remain as classics, because of their very
informative and believable stories. John Steinbeck especially excels
in this, and therefore is the reason I have chosen this book to
describe.
‘Of Mice and Men’, the title of the novel, originates from the poem
‘To a Mouse’, by Robert Burns. It means that no matter what you plan
to do in the future, something will always go wrong. It comes from the
line ‘…the best laid schemes o’ Mice and Men, Gang aft agley’. The
title of the book was originally ‘Something that...
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Of Mice and Men
Of Mice and Men was written during a period of racism. In the 1960's it was important for everyone to get along with eachother because not everyone was equal. George and Lennie showed a great part in friendship throught the whole book. At the ranch in Selinas mostly everyone showed friendship in some way. Friendship was a great factor when the book was published because of all the racism going on at the time.
Friendship has a big part to do with Lennie and George’s dream of owning a small farm and raising animals. George and Lennie both set their mind to accomplish their dream and go to work on a ranch for little...
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During the time of the depression, an author by the name of John Steinbeck wrote a novel called Of Mice and Men. The novel’s setting is in Southern California during the same time period. John Steinbeck shows us that friendship is a valuable thing to have in the novel Of Mice and Men. The book expresses how friendship can get you through hard times and help you keep going. Two of the characters in the novel named George and Lennie, have a relationship that describes the perfect friendship in my opinion. They are always there for each other and always have each others back.
George...
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Men Are Different Than Mice In the story Of Mice And Men everybody is lonely in a way. I think that Crooks is the loneliest, and then Curley`s Wife, Candy, Lennie, and George. I think that these five people are the best form of loneliness.I think that Crooks is the loneliest of all because he has no one to talk to. All he has to do is read books and work by himself. When Lennie comes into the room Crooks thinks that he is trying to take his lamp, and he says that he has a right to have a lamp. When he finally figures out that Lennie just sees him as...
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Everywhere there is society and civilization and there is always prejudice. Someone is always the wrong color, worshiping the wrong God, or wearing the wrong thing. No one fits into our idealistic world perfectly. This prejudice has been around for thousands of years because it is just human nature not to accept people for who they are. In the novel Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, which is about two migrant laborers, George Milton and Lennie Small, who make their way to a ranch in the
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In John Steinbeck's classic novel "Of mice and men" the testament of true friendship is the main theme. Steinbeck uses two migrant workers, Lennie and George, to illustrate the main themes of the novel. The novel is set during the Great Depression, approximately 1937 in California. The status of Lennie and George at the time is Steinbeck's way of illustrating the time period.Lennie Small is an oxymoron. Lennie...
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Of Mice and Men The essay will be from the viewpoint of John Steinbeck, the author of Of Mice and Men. The most basic overall viewpoint of the book would be to reach for your dreams regardless of what sets you back.George Milton, a hard working man, wanted only to have his own ranch with a garden. The only reason he did not succeed was because he cared. Lennie Small was a simple man. Though not very smart he knew what he liked and always strived after it. All he every wanted was something to pet something, that felt pretty like velvet. Candy lost his hand recently, he...
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The film “Of Mice and Men” was a fantastic transformation of the Steinbeck novel that has many different intricacies that can only be viewed in a movie. Gary Sinise is the director of the movie and also plays the role of George. This movie was made in 1992, and for a fairly old movie, Sinise adapts this classic novel with great exploration of characters. I feel that the movie is at a much higher level in entertainment than the book it was derived from. Though I believe Steinbeck does an outstanding job in the novel to set the reader’s imagination on many aspects such as the time period, what George and Lennie look like, and how other characters interact with George and Lennie, I found that...
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CHARACTERIZATION George is a small man with strong arms and a small bony nose. He takes care of his friend Lennie and tdes to keep him out of trouble. They travel from job to job and save their money in hopes to buy their own farm. Lennie is just the opposite of George. He is a big man with large pale eyes, wide shoulders and walks kind of gaudy as a bear might walk. Lennie is a bit retarded and he trusts George to make all the decisions for him. He anxiously waits for the day when he and George will buy their own farm. Candy is...
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Of Mice and MenIn Of Mice and Men novella by John Steinbeck. There's two characters that featured as best friends. George and Lennie. George is small and smart, while Lennie is big and has a mental disability. In the beginning of the story, George and Lennie say that they had a strong friendship like brothers and they have a dream of owning a house and land. However, they had many problems while working at the new job place, and it makes their dream impossible. At the ranch...
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Of Mice and MenIn Of Mice and Men novella by John Steinbeck. There's two characters that featured as best friends. George and Lennie. George is small and smart, while Lennie is big and has a mental disability. In the beginning of the story, George and Lennie say that they had a strong friendship like brothers and they have a dream of owning a house and land. However, they had many problems while working at the new job place, and it makes their dream impossible. At the ranch...
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Of Mice and Men's title could have several interpretations. The poem, To a Mouse by Robert Burns is about mice and the way they act. It also mentions that the best plans of mice and me often go wrong or get screwed up. Which is what happened to George and Lennie. This poem also states that a mouse is better off than humans because they only worry about the present. Humans sometimes regret the past and are scared about the future....
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Of Mice and Men "Of Mice and Men" is a book from John Steinbeck about two migrant workers from America. The workers, named George jdvbh and Lennie Small, travel from ranch to ranch across America getting work to fund their dream.Their dream is to buy their own ranch with " multi-coloured rabbits".The character which I felt most sympathy for was Lennie. Lennie was a very child-like person in...
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OF MICE AND MEN
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Read the passage from near the end of Section 3 of Of Mice and Men from 'Why'nt you tell her to stay the hell home where she belongs?' to 'Slim jumped up'…I'll get 'um myself.' Then answer the questions below. (a) How does Steinbeck use details and language in this passage to
show how tension mounts and leads to violence, and to portray violence?
(b) How does Steinbeck use violence and the threat of violence in the novel as a whole?
Grade C answer (a) Steinbeck shows how the men seem to be ganging up on Curley because they...
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Of Mice and MenThe book Of Mice and Men is a telling story of two men out to find their paradise. Along the way, they encounter struggles that push both the men to their limits. Lennie, the "overgrown child", is a volatile mixture of unpredictable strength and the inability to exist alone, while George, the "short-tempered loving friend", seems to hold it all together. From the start of their journey, George is burdened with the responsibility of Lennie and often has to make decisions in Lennie's best interest.One...
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John Steinbeck's novel, Of Mice and Men, was first published in 1937. Set in 1930's California, the story follows the lives of two migrant workers and accurately portrays the hardships of life in the era. The novel tells the story of George and Lennie, two men who have been brought up together after the death of Lennie's elderly aunt Clara. Lennie and George have a dream of owning a farm one day and continually move from place to place to make that dream a reality. Underlining this story line is the...
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In the Stienbeck's novel "Of mice and Men", there are many features that lay beneath the obvious surface of the main story. Some of these are the bleak setting and the strange friendship shared between the characters. In the following paragraphs I will talk about these examples.In the book there is a relationship shared between all the characters. It is a relationship like, they know each other and they say hi but they really don't want to know each other personally. They are kind of just passing each other on...
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Of Mice and Men is a novel written by John Steinbeck. It is set in California during the great depression. The story follows two ranch hands who travel together and are very poor. Throughout the novel we witness many different philosophical references. Many different types of characters from this novel are reused in today’s society. Steinbeck also writes eloquently about the many different emotions, aspirations, and dreams of man.
This novel’s title originates from Robert Burn’s poem “To a Mouse” written in 1785. Steinbeck’s book shows comparisons to this poem. One way it shows this is through the powerless and doomed fate of the mouse that has no control over what could happen to it based...
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Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck At first glance, Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck is a tale of two best friends traveling the countryside looking for work. This would seem like the norm for lower class people trying to survive in the rat race of society. Yet, the story isn?t merely George and Lennie?s search for jobs. Rather, it is about their all out quest for the
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Who doesn't know of John Steinbeck's classic novel 'Of Mice and Men'? It is a novel that almost everyone educated in the United States has either read it or pretended to read it. But how many have seen the 1992 film 'Of Mice and Men'? The relative obscurity of 1992 screen version of this timeless drama does not mean that it was poorly done. Just the contrary is true, it is one of the best film adaptations of a novel that I have seen. The novel and the film are very similar. The Steinbeck's novel could be though of as the screenplay's first draft. There were some small changes, but...
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Friendship: The Escape of Loneliness America in the mid 1930's was a lonesome place to be, mostly as a result of the amount of discrimination that was present during the time. In his touching novel, Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck expresses that friendship is a precious asset for people to possess with one another, allowing them to escape loneliness. George and Lennie, after many years of traveling and bonding together, find jobs on a solitary ranch in
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Many books today are very controversial because people can't seem to agree on whether a certain book has literary merit or not. "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck, would fall underneath the category of a controversial novel, in the book themes of friendship through hardships, segregation, dreams and despair are all displayed. Although great themes, Steinbeck does not develop his characters well, and we especially don't see any maturity in the actions of the characters. Without growth in characters the novel becomes repetitive and boring, the outcome no longer becomes surprising...
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A Gentle One to Love Many people say that all a person needs is "A gentle One to Love." In the book Of Mice and Men, written by John Steinbeck, a partially mentally retarded man named Lennie grows attached to his friend George and follows him everywhere he goes, accidentally getting them both into all kinds of trouble. Eventually George realizes that both he and Lennie can't keep running away from their troubles, and shoots Lennie. There are many different relationships throughout this book, such as...
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Of Mice and Men is one of Steinbeck's best novels. John Steinbeck, born in Salinas, CA he goes back to that setting for this novel. There are five to six characters that Steinbeck develops and opens up to the reader through the novel. Although George, Lennie, Crooks, Candy, and Curly's wife all seek a place to belong and someone to love as a cure to there loneliness, all their dreams for a better future are destroyed in the...
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Does Steinbeck reflect a desperate society or does he offer some hope and optimism in his novel "Of Mice and Men"
In Steinbeck's novel " Of Mice and Men" there are many different characters each expressing there own opinion on whether they are living in a desperate society or that there is indeed some hope and optimism in the world around them. At the time the book was set, which is in the 1930's great American depression, many people were unemployed and jobs were hard to come by. Steinbeck's novel centres around the exploits and happenings of a few men, and one women, at the time of this great depression. Steinbeck shows how the most unusual friendships can be created...
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John Steinbeck¡¯s novel ¡® Of Mice and Men¡¯ shows us many characters, two main men and the others. In his world they are all lonely in their own way with their own dream. However they get hurt. He describe their life goes in negative.The novel set California in the town called Soledad. The story starts with two main characters that George Wilton and Lennie small. They move farm to farm....
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First published in 1937, Of Mice and Men is a classic American novel by John Steinbeck. George and Lennie are two ranch hands that travel together, with George watching over the mentally inferior Lennie. When they start work at a new ranch, several different characters are introduced. One affliction that seems to face several characters is loneliness, created by factors such as the character's lifestyles and by...
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>Within the story Of Mice and Men, there are many different things that occur that make the conflict hard to get because it is very confusing. I believe that the main conflict in the story is Man vs. Himself. I say this because Lennie is always causing trouble, but he never seems to think that it is he because he doesn't know the kind of things that he can do.> The main characters in the story are George and Lennie. The story is about the two men's adventures as they go along with the story. George...
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Thomas Rasmussen Svendborg Gymnasium Engelsk Stil Afleveres d. 17-01-00 Side � PAGE �2� af � NUMPAGES �3�
Of Mice and MenBy John SteinbeckExercise 1: The story is about two drifting outsiders, who in their romantic unrealistic determination of finding their own place in the world, come out as losers. With the desire of getting a ranch, and in their loneliness, George and his huge simple-minded friend Lennie...
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'Of Mice and Men' is a 1937 novel about the life and difficulties of travelling ranch workers. The two main characters in this novel are called George and Lenny, and they are both travelling ranch workers, finding work wherever they can so they may raise enough money to achieve their dream; a plot of land of their own. George is a described as a small but an intelligent man although his views on whether or not he's intelligence is much different than an average man,...
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Life is not Always How We Want it to Be John Steinbeck's story, Of Mice and Men, is a book that shows all different types of characters and their personalities they have. Candy, Crooks, and Curley's wife all are completely different people with one common problem. All three of them are judged to be unfavored by the others because of social, mental or physical problems. Many of them are underprivileged as well for these three reasons.Each individual has many different, unfavored characteristics...
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Of Mice And Men: The Next Chapter After the death of Lennie George, Candy and the others went back to the ranch and they started to work again. When Lennie died George , Candy were very sad and the others were very mad.The next day the boss came barging in where George was sleeping the boss went to the bed were George was and told him to get up so George got up. The boss told George that he was sorry for Lennies death so he put his hand in his pocket and...
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This novel is set on the Californian Grain Farms in the 1930's. The town is called Soledad and is four miles south of San Jose. The inspiration for the book probably came from a poem by Robert Burns. The poem was about the plans of mice and men going wrong. The book generally is about all of the migrant workers, all with their own dreams. The main characters
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Of Mice and Men "Revelance of Hope in the novel" The very beginning of the novel has George and Lennie having a conversation of their dream of owning a little place of their own, "An' live off the fatta the lan" (pg14). How they're going to raise up a stake so they can buy a farm from an old couple. The talk about how they're going to have "...a couple of acres an' a cow and some pigs..." (pg 14) as well as a vegetable patch so as to have alfalfa for the rabbits. The fact of owning rabbits is what Lennie is mainly focused on. This whole planned dream is what gives Lennie and George hope. Which keeps them...
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Louise Roots 10DEnglish examOf Mice and Men is a novel that was set in the 1930s where women did not have any rights and men dominated. Significantly therefore Curley's wife can be seen as a victim of society who is forced into marrying a man who did not love her and she was a very lonely character in the novel. As a reader we can gather her loneliness when she states, "Why can't I talk to you? I never get to talk to nobody? I get awful lonely", notably she says this to Lennie who is also a very vulnerable character and she knew that he wasn't the brightest person on the...
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I have been analysing the novella ‘Of Mice and men’ by John Steinbeck, which was published in 1937. Steinbeck wrote the novel based on his own experiences as a bindle stiff in the 1920’s, around the same time when the great Wall Street crash happened, causing an immense depression in America. Throughout the novel he uses a recurring theme of loneliness in his writing, which may have reflected his own experiences at this time. This is evident in his writing by the way he describes the characters, setting and language in the novel.
In the whole of the novella, Steinbeck uses a great deal of imagery in his writing, Therefore, helping us to understand the settings of the novel in much more...
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The story began with the two main characters, George and Lennie, coming out of some woods in the Salinas River Valley of California. The two men were migrant ranch workers who had just gotten off a bus and were making their way to another job. The ranch is a distance from where they were let off, so after walking a while, they stopped to rest by a creek and spent the night. George made it perfectly clear to Lennie that when they arrived at the ranch, he would do the talking. Lennie was enormous in stature, but he was mentally incompetent. The majority of George's energy was devoted to looking after Lennie...
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The story began with the two main characters, George and Lennie, coming out of some woods in the Salinas River Valley of California. The two men were migrant ranch workers who had just gotten off a bus and were making their way to another job. The ranch is a distance from where they were let off, so after walking a while, they stopped to rest by a creek and spent the night. George made it perfectly clear to Lennie that when they arrived at the ranch, he would do the talking. Lennie was enormous in stature, but he was mentally incompetent. The majority of George's energy was devoted to looking after Lennie...
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Jason DeMasiAP English IVFebruary 8, 2004Mrs. D'AlonzoResearch Paper ProposalPurpose:Thesis: John Steinbeck's use of loneliness, along with companionship, to show the suffering the main characters undertook throughout Of Mice and Men.Proposal:1. Definition of...
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Few books have lasted nearly century being widely appreciated by readers and being a bestseller. John Steinbeck's novel, "Of Mice and Men", has endured almost a century and is still being read and appreciated by readers throughout the world. "Of Mice and Men" like other good novels have certain elements of...
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Foreshadowing in Of Mice and Men People always guess what is to come. They say things like "The Steelers are going to win today 17 to 12." These people guess with the information they know by using a technique called foreshadowing. Foreshadowing is a technique used to give a hint of what is to come. If the Steelers were to win all their regular season games, many people would say that the Steelers were going to win the Super Bowl. The people do not know that they will win but using...
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"Of Mice and Men"John Steinbeck was born in 1902, in the town of Salinas, California where he spent most of his life (Coles notes). He received critical attention for writing about social consciousness (Coles notes). Of Mice and Men is a novel that reveals social problems. At the time the story is set, there was mass unemployment throughout the country (History Twelve. Falk), and Steinbeck focuses on two crucial characters:
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Edwards 1Lakiyah EdwardsMs. SaganEnglish21 October 2014Of Mice and Men EssayHow can a bond stay strong when it faces many obstacles? The main characters George and Lennie find out the answer to that dilemma in Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck which is set in his hometown of Salinas, California. The novel tells a story of two men that leave an old job to escape trouble, but run into it when they arrive at a new working place as they try to earn enough money to achieve their dreams. Through it all, these very different men try to keep their...
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Naturalism is a very intense style of literature that an author can use. With naturalism, the author is trying to convey knowledge acquired through the senses and experiences they them selves have been through. In the novel of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, he portrays elements of naturalism through his very own sights and experiences. During the depression John Steinbeck got a first hand dose of what it meant to deal with sordid aspects of life. Just like his book, he portrays...
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Of Mice and MenFurther reading courseworkJohn stienbeck and Elisabeth gaskel are both very similar writers and both write similar storeys. Two of their books "of mice and men" and "half brothers" both have similarities and links. Even though they had 100 years of time between them the two story's both have similar characters and are both convincing in similar waysHelen and her first husband were in a very close...
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Everyone has a dream, whether it be earning a degree at some prestigious university, or having a stable job in order to own a house and support a family. In John Steinbeck's novel, Of Mice and Men, he exhibits the fact that no matter how extreme or reasonable one's dream is, every person has the right and ability to ponder how their life could be. However, many people fail to achieve their dreams. Some dreams are lost in the battle with society, but most of the time the person's internal limitations are the central cause of the dream's downfall. Steinbeck uses the major characters...
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Aside from the obviouse, George and Lenie, Crooks played an important role in, Of Mice and men by John Stienbeck. Crooks is thought of as the lowest rank on the ranch. He is looking for companions but he goes about it in an around about way. He is a very smart man but no one on the ranch bothers to listen to him because he is black.Crooks is a very lonely and grumpy old man. He has a croked back were a horse kiked him....
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Of Mice and MenLoneliness is a basic part of human life. Every one becomes lonely once in a while but in Steinbeck's novella "Of Mice and Men", he illustrates the loneliness of ranch life in the early 1930's and shows how people are driven to try and find friendship in order to escape from loneliness. "A guy goes nuts if he aint got nobody. Don't matter no difference who the guy is, long's he's with you. I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an' he gets sick." A major theme in Steinbeck's novella Of Mice and Men is loneliness. The characters Crooks, Candy and Curley's wife each suffer from this althoug ......
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